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ROB wrote:snaark wrote:Forcing people to vote tends to make them find any dumb reason to like or dislike candidates. This forces politicians to engage in trivial arguments, which drowns out healthy political discourse. Remember "children overboard"?
To put it another way: Informed people tend to vote, whereas uninformed people may or may not vote, given the choice. If voting is not compulsory, then at least part of the uniformed proportion of the population won't affect the outcome.
Just my 0.02€
The arrogance of those statements is quite staggering.
snaark wrote:I find staggering how people defend their country's system because it's their country's system.
blah blah blah.
Yes it would.snaark wrote: Making people vote under duress perverts the democratic process.
ROB wrote:I know I am supposed to remember who you are. I mean, you have like 3000 posts.
It's just I come up with a blank.
Remind me, how did I hurt your vagina again?
ROB wrote:I know I am supposed to remember who you are. I mean, you have like 3000 posts.
It's just I come up with a blank.
Remind me, how did I hurt your vagina again?
snaark wrote:Incidentally apart from Australia (which has historically been governed by two parties that are almost indistinguishable), other countries where voting is mandatory include Belgium, Argentina, Turkey and Egypt. Not exactly models for efficient democracy.
snaark wrote:Point taken. Compelling people to vote perverts the democratic system :)
flipflop wrote:ROB wrote:
He used to be 19D20 and was cool about guns n that, but now I think a cat lady has stolen his password and posts for him, while he drinks beer and shoots at stuff from his back porch
Cheers
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